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EclipseCon Europe is the leading conference for developers, architects, and open source business leaders to learn about Eclipse technologies, share best practices, and more. Taking in place in Ludwigsburg, Germany, October 21-24, 2019, ECE 2019 is our biggest event of the year and connects the Eclipse ecosystem and the industry’s leading minds under one roof. We are pleased to once again co-locate with the OSGi Alliance Community Event, adding more breadth and expertise to the program.

The world’s leading innovators in Java, including Fujitsu, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Payara, Red Hat, and Tomitribe, are collaborating at the Eclipse Foundation to advance enterprise Java technologies to support the migration of mission-critical applications to the cloud. Jakarta EE and Eclipse MicroProfile offer a path for migrating Java EE legacy applications to a standard enterprise Java stack for a cloud native world.

The Jakarta EE community is the driving force behind the future of cloud-native Java. Active participation represents the best way to drive the vendor-neutral and rapid innovation necessary to modernize enterprise systems for cloud use cases. That said, we’d like to make sure that the community is kept up-to-speed with the latest developments in the Jakarta EE ecosystem.

The results of the 2019 Jakarta EE Developer Survey are out. Almost 1,800 Java developers from around the world have spoken. Taken together with the engagement and response to my recent posts on the future of Jakarta EE (see my latest blog here), the survey makes clear the developer community is focused on charting a new course for a cloud native future, beginning with delivering Jakarta EE 8.

I’d like to thank the community for the level of engagement we’ve seen in response to my post from last week. This post, which again represents the consensus view of the Jakarta EE Steering Committee, answers some questions about Jakarta EE 8, which is planned as the initial release of Jakarta EE, and is intended to be fully compatible with Java EE 8, including use of the javax namespace. We thought it would be useful to reiterate the messages we have been delivering about this release.

The Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA) is an agreement made by contributors certifying the work they are contributing was authored by them and/or they have the legal authority to contribute as open source under the terms of the project license.

Summary of progress to date and implications of the agreement between Eclipse and Oracle on Jakarta EE and use of Java trademarks and the javax namespace.

Introduction

The migration of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation has been an enormous effort on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation staff and the many contributors, committers, members, and stakeholders that are participating.

This post was reviewed and represents the consensus view of the Jakarta EE Steering Committee.

After 15 years at 102 Centrepointe Drive in Ottawa, the Eclipse Foundation is on the move. We will now be located at 2934 Baseline Road, Suite 202, Ottawa, ON, K2H 1B2.

Back in 2004, when we took the space current space on Centrepointe, there were only three of us on staff. Fifteen years later we have been joined by over 20 more staff in the Ottawa office, where we now occupy all three floors of our building. With this growth, we have simply outgrown our existing space.

We are proud to announce that our 2019 IoT Developer Survey results are now available! In February & March 2019, we conducted the fifth annual IoT Developer Survey and 1,717 responses were received. Thank you all for contributing to this initiative and helping us gain insight into IoT developer communities worldwide! This yearly survey is intended for the Eclipse Foundation to continuously learn key trends that are happening in this ever-changing world we call the Internet of Things.